[cover graphic Allegra Guerrazzi]
Blue Kinships, edited by Chiara Certomà, as just been released by Palgrave MacMillan, NY.
Blue Kinship contributes to the emergent movement of ideas and practices that are interpreting the ocean as a conceptual and physical space for reconsidering our relationship with the complex, heterogeneous and mutable ecological systems of the Anthropocene; and, in consideration of the drastic and dramatic changes affecting the ocean’s health, is working toward a paradigm change in consideration of the socio-cultural connection with the sea. Tightening the link between society and the ocean cannot be achieved by technological solutions alone, but requires a multidisciplinary understanding of the ocean’s influence on the more-than-human society, and of society on the ocean. This book includes cross-cutting, theoretical analyses, methodological descriptions and case studies across the social and natural research that puts the ocean at the core of all global health to feed the emergent socio-cultural geography of the sea and marine social science perspectives.
It emerges as an essential multidisciplinary contribution to marine social science, reframing our understanding of the ocean not merely as a resource, but as a complex, relational space integral to the future of the Anthropocene. The volume urges us to move beyond technological fixes and cultivate deep socio-cultural and emotional connections with the sea. This volume arrives at a critical juncture, offering intellectual depth and creative methodologies for reimagining humanity’s bond with the ocean. It beckons scholars, policymakers, and artists alike to embrace participatory, emotionally grounded, and transdisciplinary approaches in the pursuit of ocean sustainability.
Overview
- Offers a reflection on how it’s possible to shape a sustainable ocean future
- Provides social consideration of the socio-cultural meaning of the ocean and connection with the sea
- Explores multiple forms of attachment of human, non-human and more-than- human society with the sea
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[photo G.Lupinacci]
The book is available now in both ebook (EPUB and PDF) and hardcover formats, with global access enabled for institutional and individual readers
Table of contents
Structured into two major parts—Thinking the Ocean and Making the Ocean—this collection elegantly blends theoretical inquiry with grounded, creative praxis:
Thinking the Ocean
- Front Matter
- The sea, above all
- Chiara Certomà
- Building Relationships and Networking for Marine Social Sciences
- Emma McKinley
- “Il mare unisce ciò che la terra divide”
- Enrico Squarcina
- Thinking-with the Sea’s Turbulent Materiality: Trans-Oceanic Figurations, Blue Kinships and Liquid Futures in Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
- Gabriella Palermo
- Plastisphere in Chthulucene. “Staying with the Problem” in Oceanic Natureculture Assemblages
- Chiara Certomà, Federico Fornaro
- An Intimate Connection: Society and the Ocean in Water Photography
- Giuseppe Lupinacci
Making the Ocean
- Citizen Science and Ocean Literacy: Bridging the Gap Between Society and the Ocean
- Stephen Parkinson, Sasha Marie Woods, James Sprinks, Bianca Cruz, Kaushiki Das, Anna Witter et al.
- Connecting People and the Ocean Through Street Art and Citizen Science
- Baiba Prūse, Marta Dieviņa, Rihards Bražinskis, Anna Stolyarova, Noel Pérez, Cika Schulz et al.
- The Power of Music to Foster Ocean Stewardship: An Experience from the West Coast of Ireland
- Maria Vittoria Marra, Seán McGrath
- Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Process to Make Blue Kinships Visible
- Ruth Brennan, Stephen Hurrel
- Ocean Connections-Animating the Ugly Duckling Between Storytelling and Science. Developing a SciArt Project
- Kristin Bergaust
- Tidal Kinships: Sharing and Caring for Rhythmic Human and Non-Human Estuarine Ecologies
- Heather Green, Owain Jones
- Blue Kinship. Documenting Ocean Relationships
- Federico Fornaro, Giuseppe Lupinacci
Chiara Certomà 
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